A Suspicious Pattern Alarming the Ukrainian Military A Ukrainian military source believes that Russia’s long-range strikes are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies.

"Russia’s long-range strikes, by cruise missiles that are among the most costly weapons in its nonnuclear arsenal, are aimed using satellite imagery provided by U.S. companies"
From Graeme Wood

www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Heavy Industry Is Europe’s Trump Card The continent has an upper hand in its looming security competition with the United States.

New piece in foreign policy. The US's postwar role as guarantor of Europe’s security is over.

But Europe has an overlooked trump card: when it comes to manufacturing it blows the US out of the water, giving Europe the ability to rearm.

Thread on Monday.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/03/07/e...

January 29, 2023. It was all there for everyone to see, who cared enough to notice.

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

If you're ever bored archive.org is a free internet library with billions of hours of stuff between movie books music etc.

musk on twitter: Mars probably had liquid oceans a long time ago, before it cooled. Now, there are vast fields of ice covered by red dust. If we warm up the planet, the oceans will return and the atmosphere will densify, making it possible to extend life to Mars.

he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.

Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

On Trump-Zelensky this is the most recommended reader comment on @financialtimes.com's story. Right on Zelensky. Right on Europe.

We now have enough Starlink reentries to use the Kaplan-Meier survival analysis estimator to determine the median Starlink operational lifetime: 5.3 years. This mixes together V1 and V2M Starlinks.

As it happens, Trump has gone so far off the cliff that Europe isn’t divided but closing ranks.

I figured that it’ll become politically difficult for European politicians to try and suck up to him because electorates see what Trump is doing and are very angry. But it’s even better than expected:

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

Siegfried Woldhek in the Dutch paper NRC.nl (for some reason cartoon seems unfindable via search on their website)

WYOMING:
“Thank you, Madam chairman.”
“I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.”
“Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

They found a way to litter from space

some america first beers spotted in denmark:

US Launches 122 Defense Payloads in 2024, Europe Launches 1 The US launched 122 defense payloads in 2024, surging 184% YoY, according to data compiled by astronomer Jonathan McDowell. The upswing was driven by the National Reconnaissance Office’s deployment of...

This headline - OOF. Iran, Japan, and ROK all launched more defense payloads than Europe

US Launches 122 Defense Payloads in 2024, Europe Launches 1 payloadspace.com/us-launches-...

YouTube video by Christopher L Webster Can You Say Why America is the Greatest Country in the World?

The Newsroom never got the love it deserved because this is one of the best monologues on TV ever and it was in the FIRST EPISODE youtu.be/fJh9t9h6Wn0

Yes the Meta move is bad. But get real. The fact-checking and media literacy movements never came close to addressing the elephant in the room — the need to make social media companies liable like traditional media companies for the hateful and dangerous content that they permit on their channels.

Extremely interesting. Whenever we speak, we are reading the room. Social media are how we perceive the room. Distortions in social media distort what we say and think by distorting our perceptions of what “everybody else” thinks. This is how Musk or Zuck can drive us in warped directions.

www.forbes.com/sites/ericma...

We shd be cautious about amplifying Putin’s nuclear threats for clicks. Reporting them without analysis leaves the audience lost about whether the threats are real or empty. And mocking them, if done constantly, actually turns the subject into a game & too erodes our capacity to respond critically.

What will space exploration look like under Trump? A lot is unknown, but the roles of billionaires like Elon Musk and Jared Isaacman suggests a focus on human and private spaceflight.

This actually is my go-to response about what to expect from the next administration: “If I have one thing to say, everything is unclear,” says Samson...“Anything could happen.”

What will space exploration look like under Trump? www.sciencenews.org/article/spac...

Tough to compete with this

Wow. "SpaceX saw 20 kilometers of position error in their one-day computations” of the orbits of Starlink satellites" (and not only SpaceX)

thousands of satellites performed orbit-raising maneuvers on the same day!

A ‘doom loop’ of climate change and geopolitical instability is beginning Climate change is driving inflation and instability, which harms climate action. But it’s not too late to escape the doom loop.

This has always been my worst fear about climate change: the worse it gets, the more geopolitical chaos it causes; the more geopolitical chaos there is, the harder it is to cooperate to fight climate change.

theconversation.com/a-doom-loop-...

Post by John Nichols: Harris is now winning a higher percentage of the popular vote than Trump in 2016 or 2020. Trump 2016: 46.1% Trump 2020: 46.8% Harris 2024: 48.4% Trump didn’t win a “landslide” in 2024. In fact, his victory margin is one of the smallest in US history.

This is a very important point. Please let everyone know.

YouTube video by Terra Incognita Every Orbital Rocket Launch: 1957-2024

"well, that escalated quickly."

Amazing visualization of every space launch in history, guiding the simple realization that we are in the second Golden Age of space.

youtu.be/yHNKzQLNiuY?...